Guild Wars 2

I understand pet damage is a significant part of class DPS so my question is in PvE pet lands its DPS consistently due to mob AI but in PvP its another story so did player damage, in PvP, get boosted to compensate?

Other classes have a human behind them unlike pet AI and humans tend to do a pretty good job at learning the basic ability of staying in range of target but pet AI in this game, in PvP, is obviously designed not to because of cast time and pet not adjusting to a moving target. For example Drake starts casting but target runs through drake —-> drake casts and hits nothing. A human would have been turning during the cast and hit its target!

In any case pet AI is how Anet wants it and I think now I understand why bunker builds are far more effective at PvP: As a DPS build pet DPS is a significant part and since in PvP all a human target needs to do to negate pet DPS is move I understand why DPS builds are inferior to bunker builds for ranger in PvP.

I don’t mean to start a flame war from all the DPS players and I ain’t lookin’ for WvW clips of your 30/30/5/0/5 build either, just trying to understand how the class has been balanced in PvP with regards to pet AI being significantly less effective at delivering consistent DPS?

Use the right pet for the right job. Drakes are an AoE pet so its pretty easy to use F2 against a group of enemies. Use cats/birds for 1v1 dps or dogs for CC.

Yes, they are much less effective of hitting players in pvp. Especially classes like mesmers, or the highly mobile thief and ele.

Cempa.5619:

I understand pet damage is a significant part of class DPS so my question is in PvE pet lands its DPS consistently due to mob AI but in PvP its another story so did player damage, in PvP, get boosted to compensate?

No.

Player stats are limited in pvp. Because of this pet dmg can seem to be greater.

Petkitten often enough. Some pets however require more micro than others.

Also, just my observation, but for every player that can kite a pet AND dodge your attacks effectively, there are at least a billion more who don’t.